Elton Sawyer, NASCAR senior vp of competitors, mentioned Tuesday morning that sequence officers will additional study Sam Mayer wrecking Jeb Burton after the checkered flag in final weekend’s Xfinity race at Martinsville Speedway.
“Having (that) sort of incident after the checkered flag, it’s simply not one thing we’re going to tolerate,” Sawyer mentioned Tuesday morning on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “We’ll get with our crew right now, talk about it and see what the subsequent steps are.”
Any penalty may come later right now.
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“(Mayer) destroyed our automotive and wrecked us,” Burton mentioned after the race. “Hopefully NASCAR does one thing as a result of he actually right-reared me into the skin wall. I hate it for my guys to tear up a automotive.
“I race lots of people out right here with respect and I simply need it again. He ran over me for no purpose, so I gave it again to him and he threw a mood tantrum. I’d love to speak to him however there wouldn’t be a lot speaking. … The best way he acts, he’s a punk. I believe all people is aware of that.”
Mayer was upset with Burton for triggering a crash that collected Mayer the earlier weekend at Talladega and in addition was upset with how Burton raced him Saturday night time.
“It’s a precept factor,” Mayer mentioned. “(Burton) is the worst particular person to race round in the complete storage. He has a repute of being over his head each single week and this was a primary instance of it. He simply can’t take no for a solution.
“A (playoff driver) racing for one thing enormous, moved him out of the way in which and went on and was quicker than him ultimately. As quickly as he bought again to me, he gave it me and tried to wreck me three corners in a row. Thank God I’ve sufficient automotive management the place I can maintain on to it and never wreck. He has no respect for somebody racing for one thing that’s greater than he’s.”
As for the method NASCAR in figuring out what motion to take, Sawyer instructed “The Morning Drive” on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio: “I’ll let our sequence director (within the Xfinity Sequence) Eric Peterson run level. He’ll discuss to each driver, on this case Jeb and Sam, get their aspect of the story.
“We’ll return and take a look at all of the replay. We’ll take a look at the race as an entirety to see what unfolded early on after which we take all of that, we sit down and take a look at prior conditions which can be related and we’ll decide on how we transfer ahead.
“When issues occur after the race and we begin utilizing autos to run into one another, that risdes to a special stage and we’ll reply accordingly.”
